IMC 2025: Sessions

Session 501: Mourning and Remembrance, I: Burial Landscapes

Organiser:	Lena Wahlgren-Smith, Department of History, University of Southampton
Moderator/Chair:	Lena Wahlgren-Smith, Department of History, University of Southampton
Paper 501-a	A Peculiarity of Cypriot Funerary Sculpture and the Social Implications of Memory: Gravestones in the Form of Semi-Columns (Language: English) Savvas Mavromatidis, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Cyprus Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 501-b	A Foundation of Plague: St Roch and the Creation of the Igreja de São Roque (Language: English) Emily Heimerman, Institute for Medieval Studies / Department of History, University of New Mexico Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Religious Life, Social History
Abstract	This first session in a strand of four on Mourning and Remembrance considers the topic through the burial landscape. How does the desire to honour and remember the dead balance against practicalities of topography, economy and materiality? The first paper (Mavromatidis) discusses the use of tombstones made from ancient columns in the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus in terms of materiality, memory and values. The second paper (Heimerman) investigates a different type of burial landscape: the mass plague cemetery of Lisbon, later turned into the Igreja de São Roque.